Word: throngs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...charm for every one, even the foremost indifferent and insensible. The surrounding buildings, all full of interest and some of them true monuments of Harvard's success and greatness, the crimson-uniformed nine in the centre, the runners and bicyclers, the tennis players, and last and laziest, the throng of lookers-on on the out-skirts, all make on Holmes on any pleasant afternoon a very fascinating picture, which speaks as well for Harvard's athletic activity as for her intellectual progress...
Long before the hour fixed for opening the doors of Sanders Theatre, both entrances to the transept of Memorial Hall were besieged by a throng of anxious ticket holders. The moment the doors were opened, there followed a scene of indescribable confusion, and for a time the crush at the two narrow gates leading to the theatre entrances threatened to become serious. The seating accommodations were put to a severe test to accommodate the audience of over 2000 which was in attendance, and not only every seat in the main body and the balconies of the theatre was utilized...
...eager throng is surging to and for in front of a long, low window; men are crowding and elbowing each other; old hags are pointing toward the glass, and croaking to one another; pretty women are gazing with white faces of pity, but with none the less thirsty greediness, upon some fascinating spectacle; little children are being held aloft in strong arms, that they too may see the dreadful thing, and they do see, and they toss their tiny, wavering arms aloft and crow right gleefully. The objects of Interest are four corpses, which are lying upon iron frameworks behind...
...have read them from top to bottom with their notices of Union debates, of games and sports, of tutoring, and of articles for sale. The bulletin boards come to be regarded as a part of the hall itself, I mean, an important part. Next in memory will come the throng of news boys at the entrance-"Record, sir? only one cent." "Herald, Journal, Transcript, and Star." Then there are the theatre stairs in the transept, famous for being the rostrum of that orator so noted among college men, the great and only Damel Pratt. How many discourses in poetry...
...education seems to throw a gloss over all, and the life seems more quiet, re-fined and ideal. The presence of the students in the streets in England, attired in their ridiculously short gowns, in Germany with parti-colored caps, gives an idea of gaiety and life to the throng of busy passers-by. All is University, for the very townsfolk can do nothing but talk of this new rule, that escapade of the students, the coming boat race and the thousand and one occurrences that mark the daily life at any large college. Cambridge is no exception...